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By: robinbloor

robinbloor — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:00:59 +0000

Well I looked, but could find very little. Th etymology maybe from some variant of sparling – a young herring, and graten, which is fishbone, from the German. So fish bones of some kind. Perhaps some fishbone soup.

By: George Buehler

George Buehler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:38:22 +0000

I am looking for any information on the word, “spaalegraten”. It was used by a grandfather to answer a child’s inquiry, “What’s for dinner?”.

By: jfgdjtj

jfgdjtj — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:46:27 +0000

giddelydid-didbadadeedodofleediddado is a word meaning to have a good time

By: Rev. Daniel E. Huston

Rev. Daniel E. Huston — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:22:49 +0000

I’ve always thought that the meaning of “runcible” were obvious to any thoughtful punster.
It’s a play on “run-see-able”; hence able to draw attention, noticeable, or visible, but also implying urgency for successful observation.

By: robinbloor

robinbloor — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:51:38 +0000

Sounds right to me. How curious.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:50:26 +0000

Actually I think idiolalia would also pertain to when children make up their own languages. It happens a lot between twins who aren’t socilized properly and my friends had this. Also when I was little I made up my own language that only I knew because my parents wouldn’t teach me another language and I wanted to really bad.

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By: Carl Pietrantonio

Carl Pietrantonio — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:59:09 +0000

Blatherskite was often used in the early years of LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE by Harold Gray, the creator, writer and artist. It was used by him to be a derogatory name calling of a male (usually) Such as: “He’s an old blatherskite.”

By: Richard Duda

Richard Duda — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:33:15 +0000

In P.J. Wodehouse’s “Piccadilly Jim”, first published in the USA in 1917, the main character, Jimmy Crocker, an American who has a terible hangover, says to his butler: ‘You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodle-gammon. Why is this, Bayliss?’ ‘Icouldn’t say sir’.

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Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve: The Theory of Memory | Helping Psychology — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:33:14 +0000

[...] meaning or relationship to anything he already knew. Ebbinghaus finally decided to use three-letter “nonsense words” which consisted of a consonant-vowel-consonant formation. For his study, he created 2,300 of these [...]